• General Description:

• Build, Size, and Forms:

Optime Hair

Eyes

Nose/Pawpads, Claws, Scars

• Speech: Quiet but crass, with a southern drawl like her father.
• Scent: Wood-shavings and sawdust, cannabis, pigs, leather, smoke, earth; Lykoi, Del Cenere Gang (woodsmoke, dust, ash, horse, pine, coyotes and dogs)
• Physical Expression and Quirks:
  • Merari is casual and laidback in her posture, often slouching, leaning against something, crossing her arms. She rarely looks in a hurry.
  • She usually has something between her teeth: a joint, a piece of straw, a chickenbone, etc.
  • She tends to acknowledge others with a lazy salute.

Merari wears some clothing to fit in with her humanized community and express herself, but she cares little for the quality of her garments, which need frequently mended. She likes plain, natural colors other than her beads; nondyed clothes are cheaper, after all.

2.1  Summary

Merari is a laidback individual, good-natured and easy to get along with. A hands-on woman, she prefers "doing" rather than "planning," and enjoys practical tasks and mundane chores others like to shirk. She has little regard for the future: no great ambitions and no commitments. She is content to let others lead, but while she's an honest laborer, she isn't necessarily a good follower. Chaotic and hedonistic, Rari doesn't feel beholden to contracts and is ultimately loyal only to herself and her freedom.

While a good listener and friendly to most, Merari is also rather reserved; she is very private about her own thoughts and feelings. She struggles with emotion in general -- interpreting her own or having empathy for others'. She tries to be logical in what she does, which can help with crises and judgment calls, but also makes her very insensitive. If she does express an opinion, she is often brutally honest. It's important to her that things "make sense."

2.2  Traits

• Outlook: Realistic
• Sociability: Introverted but good-natured
• Expression: Dominant, laidback
• Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
• Motivations: Pleasure and freedom, her brothers, her pigs, improving her carpentry skill
• Fears: Being emotionally compromised, physical disability, tight spaces
• Tropes: Wrench Wench, Work Hard, Play Hard, The Stoner, Aloof Ally, Sarcastic Devotee, Brutal Honesty, Oral Fixation

2.3  Details

• Likes: Her pigs, woodworking, manual labor, cannabis and tobacco, freedom, pleasure
• Dislikes: Responsibility, restrictions, boredom, emotions

Merari is bisexual and aromantic with a slight preference for males and a strong preference for coyotes or coydogs. Viewing intimacy as just another pleasurable physical act, Rari has no problem separating sex from relationships. She has a casual sex life and often flits from person to person if someone new captures her interest, often ignorant and insensitive toward partners who have "caught feelings."

Merari is an atheist. She has difficulty conceptualizing an afterlife. Instead, the finality and nothingness of death reassures her; it makes sense. Having witnessed the faithful suffer for their gods, she has a low opinion of their supposed decrees, and sees organized religion as something else constraining others' freedom.

Merari loves the weed. She enjoys the mood lift and awareness of her senses; it also helps dull her day-to-day pains as a laborer. Though she has managed to avoid most of the negative side effects, her constant use means that withdrawal symptoms set in very quickly. Tobacco will do in a pinch, just to give her something to smoke.

Alcohol often makes her nauseated, so she tends to avoid it.

Thanks to the prejudices of her past communities, Merari is biased against wolves and assumes they're bullies or bad guys. Dogs and hybrids are easily accepted. Unlike some others, Rari doesn't believe in inherent coyotes superiority.

Rari favors the company of men over women, finding the latter hard to relate to -- often wrongly stereotyping them as emotional. In general, she dislikes overly-emotional individuals and those who follow their heart over their head. She will make harsh and unempathetic judgments against such people, even if it's a bit hypocritical.

3.1  Family

• Mother: Vicira Tears
• Father: Redtooth
• Siblings:
  • Boone Lykoi (littermate)
  • Eli Winthrop, Rhodes Lykoi (younger siblings)
  • Pontifex Troy Lykoi, Rufus Lykoi; Tesla Greygrief, Renly Greygrief (half-siblings by Redtooth)

• Nieces & Nephews: Ramsey; Rhodes Winthrop, Lyla Winthrop
• Extended: Merari is, through her mother, connected to the infamous and sprawling Lykoi family as well as, more distantly (and of lesser importance to her) Kimaris, Nothing, and Tears. She also has connections through the Winthrop family, the depths of which she knows little about -- like her Del Mar heritage.

• Vicira Tears is her mother. Rari never quite measured up to Vici's expectations, so their relationship was strained even before Vici's abrupt departure, an act Rari condemns as emotionally-driven. She doesn't think she can forgive her mother for it -- if only for her father and brother's sake.
• Redtooth is her father. Merari was always a daddy's girl and often emulated Redtooth. She misses and worries about him, but tries to deny these strong feelings and the fact that her carpentry work is the only thing she takes pride in.
• Boone Winthrop is her ambitious littermate. They squabbled in their youth but had each other's backs against authority figures. Rari eventually became disillusioned with Boone's leadership, and is unsurprised to hear he got himself in over her head.

• Nazario del Bosque is her adoptive older brother, considered as good as blood to Rari. Knowing she could depend on Rio no matter what, she confided in him more than she did Boone, and was angriest on his behalf when their mother left.
• The death of her little brother Rhodes Lykoi hit her extremely hard. Merari frequently has dreams about him. He's a very touchy subject, an "irrational," emotional vulnerability.

3.2  Other Relations

• Ash Del Mar is cool because he usually has weed.
• Rari thought Thelma Del Mar was a stuck-up bitch back in Palisade, and hoo boy things have not changed.

• also some other peeps

• Laurel del Bosque traveled with and looked out for Merari in The Cartel's early days. She recognized the laidback trader's hidden depths and heeded (most of) his advice.
• Alric Braithwaite saw potential in Merari and took her on as an apprentice. Hurting for a father figure, Rari looked up to Alric but obfuscated this by being a general thorn in the tired, stoic man's side. In the end, their care for each other was real, if a little begrudging.

• Merari befriended Belinda Braithwaite out of admiration for the girl's struggle against her family's expectations. She was sometimes condescending to Belinda, but she enjoyed corrupting hanging out with her.

Key: Dabbler --> Apprentice --> Journeyman --> Master

4.2  Residence

:O i don't know this yet

4.3  Trade

Merari is a blunt trader; she wants what she wants and dislikes haggling. Her main fault is a tendency to overvalue her own time and work; she is especially defensive about her carpentry.

• Offering: Manual labor, carpentry projects, wood, leather and rawhide, pelts
• Accepting: Cannabis, better tools, nails

• [M] Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted (Sep 2017)
  Merari and Boone are born.
• [M] Field and fountain, moor and mountain (Nov 2017)
  Salsola sets fire to the D'Neville Mansion while many coyotes are inside.
• And well the youngest can command honey from the frozen land (Jan 2018)
  Merari plays with sheep to maintain some normalcy during Inferni's harsh winter.
• Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles (Mar 2018)
  Big brother Nazario comes Merari's aid when she lets some pigs escape.
• Sacked larder's gone bone-bare (Mar 2018)
  Merari demonstrates her familial loyalty, bluntness, and lack of empathy.
• [M] The day will come when you won't be (Apr 2018)
  Merari flings dung on Boone, then he shows her weed.
• [M] Sic semper tyrannus (Jul 2018)
  Discontent with their mother's leadership over slowly dying Inferni, Boone gathers supporters for some kind of cause.

• The aguey tendon, the sin (Jul 2018)
  Merari babysits her little brother and talks about loyalty with Nazario.
• So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending (Aug 2018)
  Inferni disbands.
• I'm alone but I'm alive, you can make me dance (Aug 2018)
  Merari discovers that her mother abandoned her family.
• [M] Like anger, like smoke from an unseen fire (Aug 2018)
  The soon-to-be Cartel bands together to leave old Inferni territory.
• Listen, you can tell your lawyer that he can go to hell (Aug 2018)
  Merari and Boone discuss their family.
• The hills tell one another, and the listening valleys hear (Oct 2018)
  Merari suffers an accident in the mountains.

• Get a little worn down in between (May)
  Merari reaches Del Cenere and reunites with Nazario.

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